This was interesting to read along with Diaz' Conquest of New Spain. The two narratives (or perhaps I should say "multiple narratives," since this Aztec chronicles come from several different sources) were surprisingly in sync. Many of the questions I had from reading Diaz' account were answered in Broken Spears: what was going through the minds of the Mexica as the Spanish began their push inland? What happened to all the dead from the battles? Were the accounts of human sacrifice exaggerated? (Again surprisingly, the answer seems to be "no.") How did the Aztecs view The Night of Sorrows and Alvarado's massacre? How did they view Montezuma's imprisonment and death? How did they preserve their story (or "recapture their memory," in the words of Leon-Portilla), and what were the lasting effects of the conquest? These questions and more are answered, along with details omitted from European texts, including descriptions of the devastating smallpox outbreak and starving within Tenochtitlan during the siege. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of the New World.